Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Michigan University Chronicle has been laid under the terrible imputation of being edited by boys. Thus the Chronicle defends its claim to manliness...
University of Michigan...
...engage or take such an intense interest in them [physical contests] are either 'sporting characters' or of very doubtful scholarship," nevertheless concludes that if not rowing they will be up to something worse, and that their services will at least serve to advertise the college. It therefore urges that Michigan be represented in the next regatta, and suggests as a place of practice a lake of "nearly the same size as Fresh Pond, Harvard's place of practice." O Chronicle! know'st thou not that Cambridge is situate upon the mighty Charles, which empties into the Back Bay, an estuary...
...jurisdiction of the college government, are two statements that hardly need refutation in the community at large, or in the Eastern colleges of the present day; and almost every one who has any knowledge of the sort of superintendence necessary to an educational institution would agree with the Michigan Faculty when they say that "the university can better afford to be without students than without government, order, and reputation." As to the main question of hazing, let us be thankful that nothing need be said to Harvard readers, and wish for our Western sister as peaceful a settlement...
...sallow-faced Chronicle has reached us with the latest news from the Western University. In an able article on "The Facts in Full Light," the, "recent rumpus" is explained with critical care. The great fault seems to be that hazing is a fine art at Michigan, and the press has seen fit to throw round a little sport a background of mysterious horror. "That the Faculty should repeatedly say, 'Rely upon your own judgment,' and then should submit us to that character of discipline which belongs to the preparatory department, smacks strongly of inconsistency." The students at Michigan overrate their...